Creative marketers and Blockchain programmers have teamed up to launch mytime, a platform designed to reward online buyers of services for their time. “Our time is finite while the amount of services and content keeps growing. Companies fight for customers’ attention. We offer to turn time into a measurable value and give an efficient tool …
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Earlier this month MegaFon, a major Russian mobile operator, announced the completion of a 500 million ruble (around $8.6 million) bond issue with Blockchain settlement. The entire issue was purchased by Raiffeisenbank. The system, which was developed in the course of this year, is intended for bond placement and circulation of digitized assets, making accounting …
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The Russian authorities’ position about ICOs and cryptocurrencies, which has been subject to wide uncertainty and contradictory signals so far, should be clarified at last, according to President Putin’s decision to develop a legislative framework by July 1, 2018. Following a meeting on October 10 with Finance minister Anton Siluanov, Bank of Russia Head Elvira …
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Playkey, a Russian startup whose technology allows users to play the latest video games on low-performance computers, has already secured $1.3 million in its ongoing pre-ICO campaign. The news was reported last week by Russian online publication Firrma.ru. The fund were brought by US-based fund Uncharted Capital (Playkey has managed to secure some $300,000 from …
As the blockchain craze continues in Russia, the government has announced the first project based on this technology – converting the land and property registry of all Moscow property to a blockchain. The pilot blockchain project will run from January to July 2018, focusing on verifying information from the property registry, which is normally run …
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Earlier this week Sberbank, Russia’s national savings bank, announced its participation in the non-commercial alliance Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). The bank is the first Russian bank to become a member of the alliance. EEA was established in February 2017 to “connect Fortune 500 enterprises, startups, academics, and technology vendors with Ethereum subject matter experts.” Some …
Last week, following a period of mixed signals from the authorities about cryptocurrencies, the Russian communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov said that President Vladimir Putin has officially endorsed a Russian cryptocurrency, the ‘CryptoRuble.’ “We’re launching CryptoRubles for one simple reason: if we do not, then after two months it will be done by our neighbors in …
While the rationale of many Blockchain projects might be beyond common understanding, this one aims to take advantage of a rather obvious market fact: the considerable marketing budgets which are made available after ICOs by companies to promote their project. The idea of AB-Chain, a Hong Kong-registered company with Russian roots, is to create an …
Next-gen ad platform aims to tap into post-ICO marketing budgets Read More
In late September Russian Miner Coin (RMC) raised the equivalent of $43 million through an ICO to create a “next-gen ecosystem for miners and investors,” challenging China in this field. This impressive amount set a new record in the Eastern European ICO scene; however, it is well below the company’s initial $100 million target. Asked about the consequences …
Russian Miner Coin raises $43 million in ICO to challenge China in bitcoin mining Read More
The creativity of Blockchain entrepreneurs seems to have no limits, but this application is about good old SMS. Many of us have a text-messaging bundle included in their mobile subscription plan, sometimes with an unlimited number of messages. This makes plenty of unused SMS, which we usually don’t even pay attention to. Canopus Technology Ltd., a …
New Blockchain project seeks to leverage unused SMS in a $70 billion market Read More
In this Blockchain era where technology promises to digitize virtually any type of assets, the emergence of gold-backed tokens is no surprise. The concept is not new, but we are now witnessing its first applications. One of these projects is propelled by Goldmint, a company with Russian roots now preparing for its ICO and the …
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The Blackmoon Crypto Platform, which presents itself as “a one-stop solution for asset managers to create and manage legally compliant tokenized funds,” has raised over $20 million in just one day through an ICO launched on September 12. On September 1, the startup raised $10 million through a pre-order campaign which started on August 5. …
